McMies

Seen in Chicago, a city with as many Mies buildings as Florida has trailer parks.
Compare to a similar pavilion in an office tower complex, the Dominion Centre in Toronto.
For those of you who are not architecturally versed, it’s unlikely that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the codifier of the modernist office skyscraper in America, would approve of this marriage. The melding of the commercial with architecture was, of course, part and parcel to modernist office architecture, but it had to be on Mies’s terms. If Mickey D had actually hired Mies, the logo may have looked something like this:
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